During the following decades, hundreds of anti-Apartheid actions occurred, including those of the Black Consciousness Movement, students ’ protests, labor strikes, and church group activism etc.

An unprecedented event occurred with the interview that was granted by Mircea Eliade to poet Adrian Păunescu, during the latter's 1970 visit to Chicago ; Eliade complimented both Păunescu's activism and his support for official tenets, expressing a belief that

Keele University students have a history of particularly left-wing activism, most of which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.

This group protested any linkage between what occurred on 9 / 11 with political activism or with any previous historical event that could contextualize the attack.

The conservative turn of the neoliberal decades also meant a decline in traditional political activism, and increasing " social isolation ; Twelve-Step recovery groups were one context in which individuals sought a sense of community ... yet another symptom of the psychologizing of the personal " to more radical critics.

This type of influence is often useful in the context of work settings, team sports, and political activism.

The WSM as an organisation does not participate in labor union activity, social activism or " progressive " movements although individual members may and are permitted to do so, so long as they remain within the context of economic / social rather than political activism.

Founded as Third College 1970 amid the student activism of the period, TMC's original aim was to help students understand their own community and the greater context of that community in the United States.

The magazine's look is greatly informed by the work of its original founders, and also the era and context in which the anthology was initially developed: the 1980s DIY culture and grassroots activism.

' In a 2003 study about changes in environmental activism in the Crown of the Continent ( Flathead ) Ecosystem, Pedynowski noted that junk science can undermine the credibility of science over a much broader scale because misrepresentation by special interests casts doubt on more defensible claims and undermines the credibility of all research.

Unlike the earlier leftist focus on union activism, the " New Left " instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism.

Throughout its history Tikkun has tried to engage readers in broader activism through numerous distinct organizational entities.

Ann Arbor became a focal-point for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

Ann Arbor also became a locus for left-wing activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as the student movement.

Various communities have worked not only together, but also independent of each other in various configurations including gay liberation, lesbian feminism, the queer movement and transgender activism.

Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, which promoted tolerance for homosexuals in Germany, welcomed lesbian participation, and a surge of lesbian-themed writing and political activism in the German feminist movement became evident.

What followed was a movement characterized by a surge of gay activism and feminist consciousness that further transformed the definition of lesbian.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity in faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

Other manners in which many North American pagans have got involved with the movement are through political and / or ecological activism, such as " vegetarian groups, health food stores " or feminist university courses.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he did write songs critical of hippies.

In this he disagreed with Charles Bradlaugh, and the disagreement split the secularist movement between those who argued that anti-religious movements and activism was not necessary or desirable and those who argued that it was.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

Social activism influenced abolition groups and supporters of the temperance movement.

However, as a co-founder of SANE, Fromm's strongest political activism was in the international peace movement, fighting against the nuclear arms race and US involvement in the Vietnam War.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.

Like Crass, Jello Biafra was influenced by the hippie movement, and cited the yippies as a key influence on his political activism and thinking, though he also wrote songs critical of hippies.

The fat acceptance movement ( also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, or fat power movement ) is an effort to change societal attitudes towards fat people.

Fonda has also been involved in the feminist movement since the 1970s, which dovetails with her activism in support of civil rights.

Although from a conservative family, he was politically active in the student anti-Franco movement, an adolescent political activism that forced him to flee Spain for France.

The radical environmental movement aspires to what scholar Christopher Manes calls " a new kind of environmental activism: iconoclastic, uncompromising, discontented with traditional conservation policy, at time illegal ..." Radical environmentalism presupposes a need to reconsider Western ideas of religion and philosophy ( including capitalism, patriarchy and globalization ) sometimes through " resacralising " and reconnecting with nature.

His activism in the civil rights movement included involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), of which he was named chairman in 1967.

After his expulsion became official in January 1831, he attempted to start a private class in advanced algebra which attracted some interest, but this waned, as it seemed that his political activism had priority.

Workers ' activism after 1899 had been directed toward opposing Russification, and had also sought to develop a domestic policy that tackled social problems and responded to the demand for democracy.

Sanger's activism was influenced by the conditions of her youth — her mother had 18 pregnancies in 22 years, and died at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its " model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work ".

Throughout the 1970s gay activism had significant successes.

By the mid-1970s anti-nuclear activism had moved beyond local protests and politics to gain a wider appeal and influence.

Baez's distinctive vocal style and political activism had a significant impact on popular music.

By 1975, Fifth Estate was lingering on — many staff had burnt out through too much activism and they had their share of internal disputes.

" She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: " There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs.

It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension .” Jonathan Richards wrote in 2009, “ It ’ s hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord.

The World Social Forum first met in 2001, but it had its roots in Latin American activism, namely the encuentro, a meeting which emphasizes dialogue and exchange of ideas among activists.

A restriction of 130 meals at any site being served to the hungry had for 18 years been an unenforced ordinance until March 2009, when a downtown developer presented data to the City Plan Board ( residents appointed by the City Commission to advise the Commission on planning issues ) showing that a downtown soup kitchen distributed significantly more meals than the legal limit, which resulted in a strict enforcement of the meal limit ordinance Outrage has engendered much activism, including the founding of the " Coalition to End the Meal Limit NOW!

At around this time he discovered the cruising scene in Pershing Square, where he met a man who told him about the Society for Human Rights, a homosexual rights group that had existed briefly in Chicago in the 1920s ( although Hay would later deny that he had any knowledge of previous LGBT activism ).

Unlike other groups, they were not motivated by a political ideology, but, they were activists who had become disenchanted and frustrated with traditional methods of activism.

He noted that Eliade initially felt apprehensive about the consequences of hippie activism, but that the interests they shared, as well as their advocacy of communalism and free love had made him argue that hippies were " a quasi-religious movement " that was " rediscovering the sacrality of Life ".

Pre-1960 grassroots activism against DDT in Nassau County, New York, had inspired Rachel Carson to write her bestseller, Silent Spring ( 1962 ).

This project was then supplanted by an increase in the band's political activism, something which they had begun to stress in recent years ( notably by giving all of the income from the " Ghostdancing " single to Amnesty International, and playing cover versions of Little Steven's "( Ain't ' Gonna Play ) Sun City " on tour ).

In Sarawak, Dayak political activism had its roots in the SNAP ( Sarawak National Party ) and Pesaka during post independence construction in the 1960s.

Besides his communal activism, he had wide intellectual interests.

It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism.

By 1982, the EPA had lost its credibility, but at the same time activism became more influential, and there was an increase in the funding and memberships of major non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ).